Pretty good stuff here on defending your home from an armed invasion.

 

 

 

 

 

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Is this a tv show or is it a web series?

 

Not a huge fan of the "shoulder bump" but I see why it could be useful in operating the flashlight.  You can really see why a red dot will be an advantage in this situation. 

 

This is the only other one we in nj could use

 

 

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Shawn,

Thanks for posting the videos, watched them a few times each and will probably watch them again. Very informative.

Ben

Shawn,

 

I want to echo want Ben said.  These videos were great.  They were very informative.  They certainly gave me some things to think about concerning training.

I watched a couple of these last night, and enjoyed them. I'd really like to go through one of their courses to see what its really like. 

 

 

One can dream right?

No one is going to point out that shooting someone in the back while they are retreating will get you locked up? Especially in NJ, regardless of whether they are in your home or not. I watched another one where a guy is walking down a dirt path, and is confronted from someone. With no sign of a weapon, and with the "perp" yards away, the guy shoots him, and these guys called it a good shoot.... I would not be taking the advice of these people if I were you.

 

No one is going to point out that shooting someone in the back while they are retreating will get you locked up? Especially in NJ, regardless of whether they are in your home or not.

That, depends, Are they retreating or are they moving to a position of advantage in order to continue the fight? Are they going for more ammo, better cover, more friends, bigger guns, are they attempting negate your cover by maneuvering around it, are they headed to your kids room or your neighbors house, or are they simply running away? If you are in a gunfight, you are in a gunfight. You can't read your adversaries mind or decipher their intentions.

 

If you shoot someone anywhere - the back, the foot, or the head - you are looking at being taken into custody to explain yourself, especially here in NJ. But for that to happen, you and yours have to survive the gunfight.

 

I watched another one where a guy is walking down a dirt path, and is confronted from someone. With no sign of a weapon, and with the "perp" yards away, the guy shoots him, and these guys called it a good shoot.... I would not be taking the advice of these people if I were you.

In the context of the drill they were conducting, in a State other than NJ with true self defense laws in place, that is a legitimate scenario and 1 of many proper responses that could have been played out. They forced that scenario to go that way. "No sign of a weapon" is a long way from unarmed. The role player said it himself, "I have a gun - yours - after I take it from you". If you are armed and it comes down to a physical confrontation what could happen? We just had a good example of this in FL didn't we? If he defeats you he now has your gun. That role player was showing some extreme signs of aggression and was advancing regardless of the warnings - he was a clear hostile threat. I don't know if I would have handled it the same way exactly but what the shooter did wasn't necessarily wrong per-se.

 

Like anything, you need to seperate the wheat from the chaff in training. Learning the lessons is more important than the exact scenario or how it played out.

 

The lessons this last video reinforced for me were:

- Situational awareness is key.

- Keep your personal space personal.

- Knives are fast, easily obtainable and hidden, and lethal.

- Just because you start the encounter with the gun, doesn't mean you will end it with the gun.

When I took the Florida CCW course (which I took IN Florida, where they have both the castle doctrine and SYG laws) the instructor said that if you we're to shoot someone in the back as they attempted to flee your residence that you would be charged. The castle doctrine says that you are not required to retreat, it does not give you the right to go on the offensive if the threat is retreating. However, if that threat was running away from you but running in the direction of let's say a child's or other loved ones bedroom, then thats a different story and castle doctrine gives you the legal right to assume that they are there to do you or others harm. Of course these were all hypothetical scenarios, but they made it pretty clear that the CD & SYG laws gave you the right to DEFEND without retreat only, any attempts at pursuit or offensive maneuvers with a weapon would cross the legal line. They kept stressing that you had to have a clear threat of death or severe bodily harm to you or others. It was pretty interesting stuff actually.

It's a production from Gun Talk TV. Tom Gresham talks a lot about it in his radio show.